Ducks are interesting. When you have a family member who is a duck you might not always feel like you can do things the way other families do things. Sometimes ducks seem a little younger than other birds.
Ducks might still want to ride in the shopping cart when they are too big for the cart. It might fill you with joy when they want to try to read words on signs in the supermarket. They might only have the first letter right, but it might make you happy to know that they are trying all on their own.
Sometimes duck parents must try to quell the thought that sometimes other birds start trying to read signs at a much younger age, especially little girl birds. I have a boy duck. My boy ducks like to befriend little girl birds. Girl birds are sometimes gentler and help him at school l with classroom tasks. Boy birds often like to run around, and my boy duck blends with those birds during running games as opposed to lunch.
Ducks sometimes need more schooling or help or modeling than other birds, so it is weird for parents of ducks to hear that birds who are still in their shell have been intended for home school education before they have hatched.
Some ducks go to school year-round, even in the summer. Some ducks go to therapy every week, outside of school, sometimes more than once a week.
It can feel to parents of ducks that these parents of unhatched eggs are asserting some sort of unearned privilege, the assumption of the privilege of zero extra intervention, even if those parents are not actually doing that. Those parents of unhatched eggs are just trying to live their life too.
Ducks like to know what is going to happen in the future. Ducks like a calendar that they can easily see. Ducks like that calendar to be up to date. Ducks like to be able to see when they have school and when they don’t. Sometimes it takes duck parents a while to figure out that a calendar is what their duck has been needing for a long time. A calendar could provide security that, “No, you don’t have school tomorrow” or “Yes, school is tomorrow” doesn’t always provide.
Sometimes people in public don’t understand ducks. Sometimes ducks don’t understand conventions like standing in line. Sometimes ducks run in public because they are excited and don’t always remember conventions of public life like waiting in line or walking the library. Sometimes people don’t recognize ducks and sometimes people know very little about ducks or how hard ducks work just to live on dry land. They can’t easily see that the duck goes to therapy twice a week or how hard the duck works to learn new concepts. Sometimes those public frowning people use their grownup voices on ducks or the mothers of ducks (but not usually fathers of ducks) because they don’t know very much about ducks or have only heard about ducks passing. They don’t see that in the corner of their being, the ducks don’t want to make anyone upset for cutting in line. They just see the beverage machine and know that they are excited to get a drink.
Duck fur is soft and downy.
Ducks are amazing.
